MIDLAND WR300 Weather Radio by Midland
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Digital camera reviews of MIDLAND WR300 Weather Radio
Digital camera Review: Awesome Weather Radio!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this Midland weather radio in April of 2009 and absolutely love it. It has excellent reception as I have put it to the test in my area. I don't even have the antenna fully extended and it receives perfect for a distant station. Always alerts to the weekly test tones with my county's S.A.M.E. code programmed. Programming is fairly easy. All you need is your county's S.A.M.E. code and you can find that online easily. Lights up with alerts and is easily reset. The only thing I didn't like as well is that once reset, it does not keep the warning or watch info scrolling on the display like older models, however the watch or warning light does stay lit until the NWS cancels it. This is a great radio to alert you and your family to severe weather or civil emergencies. Every household should have a weather alert radio the same as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.Digital camera Review: BEST weather radio
Summary: 5 Stars
I looked at every weather radio on the market. This is by far the best one out there. You won't be disappointed.Digital camera Review: Be notified when the news stations are notified...
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this unit 6 months ago with the fear of "tornado season" coming. I live in an area where a tornado is likely with almost every storm. In past years, Easter weekend has been ruined by the destruction of houses in the path of a tornado.
We hear the alarm and listen to the weather service warning BEFORE the news stations can announce the warning on t.v.
The WR-300 has been great. The alarm is clearly heard by everyone throughout the house and the display gives a read out of the alert while the alarm is sounding. You can hear the local weather service with the touch of a button or press the AM/FM button and listen to local radio stations of your choice. The use of this radio is very simple. My kids know how to turn off the siren and how to press the weather radio button to listen to the verbal warning from the National Weather Service. The alarm is a great asset to have during night time hours.
The radio can be plugged in for everyday use and then when power is out for whatever reason, the backup batteries take over so that you can hear announcements and further weather warnings.
Many people have complained about the beeping while pressing the buttons. Yes, there is a beep but it is not that annoying. We do not do very much button pushing in the middle of the night and it has not bothered us.
There is a weekly test that can be a little annoying if you are asleep during the day. My husband is military and his schedule changes regularly, sometimes causing him to work mid-shift. When he is sleeping during the daytime hours, the alarm sounding during the weekly test can be disturbing but it is a small price to pay for safety. On the other side, the weekly test is a nice option. Each week we are assured that the radio is working and the alert will come through during an emergency.
This is a great item and wonderful purchase to make for yourself or a loved one. You really can not put a price on safety.
Digital camera Review: Beeps a lot...But it does what we need
Summary: 4 Stars
I would not use this next to a bed as controlling the unit (for alarm setting) would wake up your partner due to the very loud beeps when you control it. This does not bother me though as we use it downstairs and not as a radio/alarm clock.
We bought this to replace another alert radio we had, which we could not switch off Thunderstorm Warming. On that radio we could only switch of watches and advisories.
With the WR300 you are able to switch of all alerts bar a few very important ones such as Tornado Warning. We switched off everything as we do not want to be woken up in the night, apart from Tornado warnings. We really do not care about winter storm warnings and freezing fog warnings as these tend to be predictable and you can plan for them accordingly with plenty of time. Tornadoes are another matter, where you do want instant warning and this works perfectly well for that.
You can program the thing for up to 8 SAME areas. I initially programmed it for our county and the neighboring counties as we are close to the border of several counties, but in the end I took the other counties off as I was getting too many alerts that were not heading our way.
With all the alerts disabled, the unit will still flash and light up with there is an alert but it will not make the siren sound. The type of sound is programmable - if I recall correctly from memory.
The radio has presets but you can store only three and the sensitivity of the tuner is not very good. However as an alert radio it does want we need.
For our purpose I will give the unit five stars, but for the general review I am marking it four stars because:
- the radio is lousy and it only has three presets
- the inability to disable the beeps is annoying making the alarm function (next to a bed) fairly useless
- there is no time on the display to show when the alert will end.
Digital camera Review: Best Weather Alert Radio
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best units I have ever had. Works well and receives all warnings or just for your county.